Story :The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Cast
Daniel GélinNapoléon Bonaparte
Michèle MorganJoséphine de Beauharnais
Raymond PellegrinOld Napoléon Bonaparte
Sacha GuitryTalleyrand
Jean-Pierre AumontRegnault de St-Jean d'Angely
Jeanne BoitelMadame de Dino
Gilbert BokanowskiTrader / Louis XVI (uncredited)
Pierre BrasseurBarras
Gianna Maria CanalePauline Borghese
Jean ChevrierGeneral Duroc
Danielle DarrieuxEléonore Denuelle
Clément DuhourMarshal Michel Ney
Jacques DumesnilMarshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
O.W. FischerKarl von Metternich
Jean GabinMarshal Jean Lannes
Cosetta GrecoElisa Baccioli
Madeleine LebeauEmilie Pellapra
Jean MaraisCount Montholon
Lana MarconiMarie Walewska
Luis MarianoGarat
Armand MestralMarshal Nicolas Oudinot
Yves MontandLefebvre
PatachouMadame Sans-Gêne
Roger PigautMarquis de Caulaincourt
Micheline PresleQueen Hortense de Beauharnais
Serge ReggianiLucien Bonaparte
Dany RobinDésirée Clary
Noël RoquevertGeneral Cambronne
Maria SchellMarie-Louise d'Autriche
Erich von StroheimLudwig van Beethoven
Maurice TeynacCount Emmanuel de Las Cases
Henri VidalMarshal Joachim Murat
Orson WellesSir Hudson Lowe
Roland AlexandreCount of Blanc-Mesnil
Lucien BarouxLouis XVIII
Pauline CartonAn innkeeper
Michèle CordoueLaetitia
Jean DanetGeneral Gourgaud
Jean DebucourtCount Joseph Fouché
Bernard DhéranBourrienne (uncredited)
Maurice EscandeLouis XV (uncredited)
Maria FavellaMadame Laetitia, Napoleon's mother (uncredited)
Gilbert GilLouis Bonaparte (uncredited)
Daniel IvernelCambacérès (uncredited)
Marie MansartMadame Bertrand (uncredited)
Robert ManuelJoseph Bonaparte (uncredited)
Jean MarchatGeneral Bertrand (uncredited)
Nicole MaureyMadame Tallien (uncredited)
Anne CarrèreMadame Hamelin (uncredited)
Dora Doll'Une Merveilleuse' (uncredited)
Louis de FunèsSoldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)